Don't generally wear grown man shoes, and the nice pair of formal black oxfords I have are in bad need of a good shine/all-around polish. I'd ideally love an artisanal shine/polish using Saphir M'dO stuff and really doing a number on it, but time is short and I just want it shined up and buffed out (plus I have no clue where I'd go for this and what I could expect to pay for a really pukka presidential shine). I'd really prefer some place in Gramercy/Flat Iron/Union SQ/Greenwich Village/LES/East Village area and not further uptown. I did a search but all of the relevant threads were over a year or two old and not especially helpful in answering my question. Either that or my search-foo sucks....

Don't generally wear grown man shoes, and the nice pair of formal black oxfords I have are in bad need of a good shine/all-around polish. I'd ideally love an artisanal shine/polish using Saphir M'dO stuff and really doing a number on it, but time is short and I just want it shined up and buffed out (plus I have no clue where I'd go for this and what I could expect to pay for a really pukka presidential shine). I'd really prefer some place in Gramercy/Flat Iron/Union SQ/Greenwich Village/LES/East Village area and not further uptown. I did a search but all of the relevant threads were over a year or two old and not especially helpful in answering my question. Either that or my search-foo sucks....

If you rarely wear these shoes, rarely polish them, etc, you're not really accomplishing much by getting "the best" shoe shine. Go to any shoe repair place or shoe shine, and get them shined, and don't sweat it.